Re: Common World Idioms
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, February 5, 2004, 1:48 |
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On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 04:04:37PM -0500, Douglas Koller, Latin & French wrote:
> I mean, you'd get those "the dragon spirals while the phoenix foxtrots" for
> "he got up on the wrong side of the bed" sorts of things, and then
> there'd be some that were spot on with the English. Go figger.
Yeah, same thing with Spanish. Obviously, Spanish is more closely
related to English than Chinese is, but it was still surprising to find
some idioms that were word-for-word identical.
-Mark